CVE-2011-0444

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 7.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-01-13 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Buffer overflow in the MAC-LTE dissector (epan/dissectors/packet-mac-lte.c) in Wireshark 1.2.0 through 1.2.13 and 1.4.0 through 1.4.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a large number of RARs.

Affected products

Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: 1.2, 1.2.0, 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.2.3, 1.2.4 (+12)

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/053650.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/053669.html
http://osvdb.org/70403
http://secunia.com/advisories/43175
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:007
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0369.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45775
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0079
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0104
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0270
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0719
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-01.html

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